{"product_id":"thinking-small-daniel-immerwahr-9780674984127","title":"Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians\u003cbr\u003e Co-Winner of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Award \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThinking Small\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based approaches. And it also sounds a warning: such strategies, now again in vogue, have been tried before, with often disastrous consequences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Unfortunately, far from eliminating deprivation and attacking the social status quo, bottom-up community development projects often reinforced them...This is a history with real stakes. If that prior campaign's record is as checkered as \u003ci\u003eThinking Small\u003c\/i\u003e argues, then its intellectual descendants must do some serious rethinking... How might those in twenty-first-century development and anti-poverty work forge a better path? They can start by reading \u003ci\u003eThinking Small\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Merlin Chowkwanyun, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"As the historian Daniel Immerwahr demonstrates brilliantly in \u003ci\u003eThinking Small\u003c\/i\u003e, the history of development has seen constant experimentation with community-based and participatory approaches to economic and social improvement...Immerwahr's account of these failures should give pause to those who insist that going small is always better than going big.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Jamie Martin, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Immerwahr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674984129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674984127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Daniel Immerwahr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44715587961087,"sku":"9780674984127","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_52c0a79a-b96a-4b52-9dfa-a6cf34939e41.jpg?v=1705672839","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thinking-small-daniel-immerwahr-9780674984127","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}